Dial caliper fail
^^Interesting you should mention 1/128, Pishta. My first "very bad" experience was with 1/128, which I never learned to deal with. WAY back in the early 70's I bought a "General Tool" brand 6" caliper which was in 1/128's. (They were for sale in just about every hardware store) Hell I did not realize there was anything else, at the time. I struggled trying to learn to read it, and it wasn't until ?? sometime in the 80's that I discovered that reading a metric or decimal vernier is about 100000000000000000000000000000000000 X easier LOLOL
They were stamped steel, not machined, and a "little rough"
One of the HANDIEST tools I carried through my years in auto parts was a little bitty pocket caliper, and another slightly larger one, also by General. I had about 3 of those over the years
In my years in auto parts I had .03037 imblazoned in my mind, and carried a tiny pocket calculator, after they became popular in the early 80's. We had a nice Mitutoyo caliper at work, and we dealt with a LOT of bearings. You had to be careful, because some metric bearings are converted into inch ID bore for such as saw mandrels, and a couple of sizes are quite "close."
^^Interesting you should mention 1/128, Pishta. My first "very bad" experience was with 1/128, which I never learned to deal with. WAY back in the early 70's I bought a "General Tool" brand 6" caliper which was in 1/128's. (They were for sale in just about every hardware store) Hell I did not realize there was anything else, at the time. I struggled trying to learn to read it, and it wasn't until ?? sometime in the 80's that I discovered that reading a metric or decimal vernier is about 100000000000000000000000000000000000 X easier LOLOL
They were stamped steel, not machined, and a "little rough"
One of the HANDIEST tools I carried through my years in auto parts was a little bitty pocket caliper, and another slightly larger one, also by General. I had about 3 of those over the years
In my years in auto parts I had .03037 imblazoned in my mind, and carried a tiny pocket calculator, after they became popular in the early 80's. We had a nice Mitutoyo caliper at work, and we dealt with a LOT of bearings. You had to be careful, because some metric bearings are converted into inch ID bore for such as saw mandrels, and a couple of sizes are quite "close."
